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  • Creativity and Copyright Legal Essentials for

    University of California Press Creativity and Copyright Legal Essentials for

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisWhat they won't teach you in film school:This expertly written reference guide breaks down copyrightlaws for screenwriters. Inspired by Strunk & White'sThe Elements of Style,this elegant, short reference is the perfect guide for screenwriters and creative artists looking to succeed as industry professionals.Readers will quickly understand the laws that govern creativity, idea-making, and selling, and learn how to protect themselves and their worksfrom the legal quagmires they may encounter.Written by an unrivaled pair of experts, John L. Geiger and Howard Suber, who use real-life case studies to cover topics such as clearance, contracts, collaboration, and infringement,Creativity and Copyrightis poised to become an indispensable resource for beginners and experts alike.Trade Review"A screenwriter seeking a basic understanding of the most important legal issues that pertain to the field will likely find Creativity and Copyright useful and readable." * Publishing Research Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Disclaimer Introduction 1. Free for the Taking: What You Can Steal from Others, and What Others Can Steal from You 2. Clearance Required: What You Do Need Permission to Use 3. Collaboration 4. Selling to Others and Implied-in-Fact Contracts 5. Copyright Infringement 6. Your Legal Team 7. Confessions of an Expert Witness: Free for the Telling Epilogue: Creativity and Copyright Appendix A. Copyright Fundamentals Appendix B. Collaboration Problems Notes Index

    1 in stock

    £42.50

  • Creativity and Copyright

    University of California Press Creativity and Copyright

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisWhat they won't teach you in film school:This expertly written reference guide breaks down copyrightlaws for screenwriters. Inspired by Strunk & White'sThe Elements of Style,this elegant, short reference is the perfect guide for screenwriters and creative artists looking to succeed as industry professionals.Readers will quickly understand the laws that govern creativity, idea-making, and selling, and learn how to protect themselves and their worksfrom the legal quagmires they may encounter.Written by an unrivaled pair of experts, John L. Geiger and Howard Suber, who use real-life case studies to cover topics such as clearance, contracts, collaboration, and infringement,Creativity and Copyrightis poised to become an indispensable resource for beginners and experts alike.Trade Review"A screenwriter seeking a basic understanding of the most important legal issues that pertain to the field will likely find Creativity and Copyright useful and readable." * Publishing Research Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Disclaimer Introduction 1. Free for the Taking: What You Can Steal from Others, and What Others Can Steal from You 2. Clearance Required: What You Do Need Permission to Use 3. Collaboration 4. Selling to Others and Implied-in-Fact Contracts 5. Copyright Infringement 6. Your Legal Team 7. Confessions of an Expert Witness: Free for the Telling Epilogue: Creativity and Copyright Appendix A. Copyright Fundamentals Appendix B. Collaboration Problems Notes Index

    2 in stock

    £14.24

  • Andre Bazin on Adaptation

    University of California Press Andre Bazin on Adaptation

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisAdaptation was central to André Bazin's lifelong query: What is cinema? Placing films alongside literature allowed him to identify the aesthetic and sociological distinctiveness of each medium. More importantly, it helped him wage his campaign for a modern conception of cinema, one that owed a great deal to developments in the novel. The critical genius of one of the greatest film and cultural critics of the twentieth century is on full display in this collection, in which readers are introduced to Bazin's foundational concepts of the relationship between film and literary adaptation.Expertly curated and with an introduction by celebrated film scholar Dudley Andrew, the book begins with a selection of essays that show Bazin's film theory in action, followed by reviews of films adapted from renowned novels of the day (Conrad, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Colette, Sagan, Duras, and others) as well as classic novels of the nineteenth century (Bronte, Melville, Tolstoy, Balzac, Hugo, Zola, Stendhal, and more). As a bonus, two hundred and fifty years of French fiction are put into play as Bazin assesses adaptation after adaptation to determine what is at stake for culture, for literature, and especially for cinema. This volume will be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in literary adaptation, authorship, classical film theory, French film history, and André Bazin's criticism.Trade Review"One must be cravenly grateful for these tasty packages of Bazin that Dudley Andrew is so thoughtfully arranging for us." * Cineaste *Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: André Bazin’s Position in Cinema’s Literary Imagination PART ONE. ADAPTATION IN THEORY 1. Preview: A Postwar Renewal of Novel and Cinema 2. André Malraux, Espoir, or Style in Cinema 3. Cinema as Digest 4. Critical Stance: Defense of Adaptation 5. Cinema and Novel 6. Literature, is it a Trap for Cinema? 7. A Question on the Baccalaureate Exam: The Film-Novel Problem 8. Lamartine, Jocelyn: Should you Scrupulously Adapt such a Poem? 9. Roger Leenhardt has Filmed a Novel he never Wrote 106 10. Alexandre Astruc’s Les Mauvaises Rencontres (Bad Liaisons): Better than a Novel 11. Colette, Le Blé en herbe: Uncertain Fidelity 12. Rereading Stendhal’s Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) through a Camera Lens 13. Of Novels and Films: M. Ripois with or without Nemesis 14. Stendhal’s Mina de Vanghel, Captured beyond Fidelity 15. Mina de Vanghel: More Stendhalian than Stendhal PART TWO. ADAPTING CONTEMPORARY FICTION A. Best Sellers from Abroad 16. On William Saroyan’s The Human Comedy 17. Billy Wilder, The Lost Weekend 18. Hollywood Can Translate Faulkner, Hemingway, and Caldwell 19. John Ford, How Green Was My Valley 20. John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath, from Steinbeck 21. John Ford, Tobacco Road, from Erskine Caldwell 22. Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy becomes A Place in the Sun 23. D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover 24. Has Hemingway influenced Cinema? 25. Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro 26. Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms 27. Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory becomes John Ford’s The Fugitive 28. Graham Greene, Brighton Rock 29. Graham Greene and Carol Reed, The Fallen Idol 30. Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter 31. Joseph Conrad, Outcast of the Islands, filmed by Carol Reed 32. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and Nikos Kazantzakis’ He Who Must Die are now Two Great French Films 33. Franz Kafka on Screen: Clouzot’s Les Espions (The Spies) B. Fiction from France 34. Avec André Gide, by Marc Allégret 35. The Universe of Marcel Aymé on Screen: La Belle Image 36. Colette, Le Blé en herbe: The Ripening Seed . . . has Matured 37. Marguerite Duras, Barrage contre la Pacifique, adapted by René Clément 38. Françoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse, adapted by Otto Preminger PART THREE: ADAPTING TO THE CLASSICS A. The Nineteenth-Century Novel from Abroad 39. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre 40. Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist 41. Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat 42. Herman Melville, Moby Dick 43. Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage 44. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 45. Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov 46. Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, alongside Tolstoy, War and Peace B. French Classics on the French Screen 47. Abbé Prévost, Manon Lescaut, adapted by Clouzot 48. Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet 49. Stendhal, Le Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma) 50. Stendhal, Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black): Tastes and Colors 51. Victor Hugo, Les Misérables 52. Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris, alongside Jules Verne, Michel Strogoff 53. Zola and Cinema: Pour une nuit d’amour (For a Night of Love) 54. Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin, adapted by Marcel Carné 55. Émile Zola’s La Bête humaine becomes Fritz Lang’s Human Desire 56. Émile Zola’s L’Assommoir becomes René Clément’s Gervaise 57. Guy de Maupassant, Une vie (A Life), adapted by Alexandre Astruc 58. Maupassant Stories adapted by Max Ophüls: Le Plaisir 59. Maupassant Stories adapted by André Michel: Trois femmes 60. French Cinema faces Literature addendum. two long essays on adaptation, translated by hugh gray 61. Journal d’un curé de campagne and the Stylistics of Robert Bresson 62. In Defense of Mixed Cinema Appendix: Chronological List of Articles Index of Films Index of Proper Names Index of Topics and Concepts

    2 in stock

    £64.00

  • Story and Discourse

    Cornell University Press Story and Discourse

    3 in stock

    Book SynopsisFor the specialist in the study of narrative structure, this is a solid and very perceptive exploration of the issues salient to the telling of a story—whatever the medium.Trade ReviewAn important American contribution to the study of narrative theory. * Choice *What I appreciate most in Chatman's study are the problem-solving activities and ambitions: again and again, he proves capable of defining areas to investigate (the borders between narrative and other temporal genres, for example, the typography of plots, the distinctive features of foregrounding and backgrounding) and of discussing narrative in terms of problems and solutions. When I opened the Chatman volume, I read the blurb first: 'A judicious and well-informed book, Story and Discourse should become the standard guide to narrative and to modern thinking about narrative.' The blurb is right. -- Gerald Prince * MLN *Table of ContentsPreface1. Introduction Narrative and Poetics Elements of a Narrative Theory Is Narrative a Semiotic Structure? Manifestation and Physical Object Narrative Inference, Selection, and Coherence A Sketch of Narrative Structure A Comic Strip Example "Reading" and "Reading Out"2. Story: Events Sequence, Contingency, Causality Verisimilitude and Motivation Kernels and Satellites Stories and Antistories Suspense and Surprise Time and Plot Order, Duration, and Frequency How Time Distinctions Are Manifested Narrative Macrostructure and the Typology of Plot3. Story: Existents Story-Space and Discourse-Space Story-Space in Cinematic Narrative Story-Space in Verbal Narrative Story-Existents: Character Aristotle's Theory of Character Formalist and Structuralist Conceptions of Character Todorov and Barthes on Character Are Characters Open or Closed Constructs? Toward an Open Theory of Character Character: A Paradigm of Traits Kinds of Character A. C. Bradley and the Analysis of Character Setting4. Discourse: Nonnarrated Stories Real Author, Implied Author, Narrator, Real Reader, Implied Reader, Naratee Point of View and Its Relation to Narrative Voice Point of View in Film Narrators' and Characters' Speech Acts "Nonnarrated" Representation in General Nonnarrated Types: Written Records Pure Speech Records Soliloquy Records of Thought: Direct Free Style = Interior Monologue Stream of Consciousness = Free Association Interior Monologue in the Cinema5. Discourse: Covert versus Overt Narrators Covert Narrators Presupposition Indirect Tagged and Free Style The Manipulation of Sentences for Narrative Purposes: Presupposition as an Example Limitation of Authority in Narrative Transmission Shifting Limited versus Omniscient Mental Access Overt Narration: Set Descriptions Overt Narration: Temporal Summaries Reports of What Characters Did Not Think or Say Ethos and Commentary Commentary Implicit Commentary: Ironic Narrator and Unreliable Narrator Commentary and the Story: Interpretation Commentary and the Story: Judgment Commentary and the Story: Generalization Commentary on the Discourse The NarrateeConclusionAppendix: Diagram of Narrative StructureIndexes: Author and Title, Subject

    3 in stock

    £21.24

  • On StoryScreenwriters and Filmmakers on Their

    University of Texas Press On StoryScreenwriters and Filmmakers on Their

    4 in stock

    Book SynopsisAward-winning screenwriters and filmmakers, including Ron Howard, Callie Khouri, Jonathan Demme, Ted Tally, Jenny Lumet, and Harold Ramis, discuss their careers and iconic films in these lively conversations transcribed from the acclaimed PBS series On StTrade Review"[L]ively and star-studded. . . . the collection will have you adding flicks to your ever-growing Netflix queue." * Austin Monthly *Table of Contents Foreword: Tips by James Franco Acknowledgments Biographies Introduction by Maya Perez 1. Creating Classic Characters A Conversation with Shane Black, David Milch, and Sydney Pollack, Moderated by Barry Josephson 2. Heroes and Antiheroes A Conversation with Paul Feig, Jenny Lumet, and Aline Brosh McKenna 3. ”In the name of my father and of the truth!” Up Close with Terry George Terry George on In the Name of the Father 4. ”Can it be done, father? Can a man change the stars?” A Conversation with Brian Helgeland, Moderated by Barbara Morgan 5. ”Attica! Attica!” Brian Helgeland Presents Frank Pierson with the Distinguished Screenwriter Award at the 2003 Austin Film Festival Robin Swicord on Dog Day Afternoon Up Close with Frank Pierson 6. ”Houston, we have a problem.” A Conversation with Ron Howard, Moderated by William Broyles Jr. A Conversation with Ron Howard, Jim Lovell, Sy Liebergot, John Aaron, Jerry Bostick, Michael Corenblith, Al Reinert, and William Broyles Jr., Moderated by Jane Sumner 7. ”If nobody loses their head, nobody will lose their head.” Up Close with Callie Khouri Callie Khouri on Thelma & Louise 8. ”It's Groundhog Day!” A Conversation with Harold Ramis, Moderated by Judd Apatow Danny Rubin on Groundhog Day 9. ”Have the lambs stopped screaming?” A Conversation with Jonathan Demme, Moderated by Paul Thomas Anderson Ron Nyswaner on Philadelphia A Conversation with Ted Tally, Moderated by Álvaro Rodríguez 10. ”I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” A Conversation with John Milius and Oliver Stone 11. ”I am Groot.” A Conversation with Michael Green, Ashley Miller, and Nicole Perlman, Moderated by Álvaro Rodríguez 12. ”Which story do you prefer?” Up Close with David Magee Afterword: Some Things I've Learned by Bill Wittliff

    4 in stock

    £15.19

  • On StoryThe Golden Ages of Television

    University of Texas Press On StoryThe Golden Ages of Television

    5 in stock

    Book SynopsisAward-winning television creators and writers discuss the evolution of TV storytelling in these lively conversations from the acclaimed PBS series On Story.Trade ReviewThis book features something for everyone. Pop culture fans will enjoy the inside stories about their favorite programs; details about casting, relationships, and story development are often as entertaining as the shows themselves. Writers will draw inspiration from the creative processes used and challenges faced by the biggest names in the business. Scholars will appreciate the contribution the interviews make to our study of television. * Popular Culture Studies Journal *Table of Contents Foreword by Noah Hawley Acknowledgments Biographies Introduction by Maya Perez 1. COMEDIES Up Close with Garry Shandling (2004) Up Close with Greg Daniels (2008) Arrested Development: A Conversation with Mitchell Hurwitz, Moderated by Paul Feig (2009) A Conversation with Alec Berg, Moderated by Pat Hazell (2011) Orange Is the New Black: Up Close with Jenji Kohan (2013) Web Series to HBO: Up Close with Issa Rae (2015) A Conversation with Carl Reiner, Moderated by Barry Josephson (2015) A Conversation with Marta Kauffman, Moderated by Barbara Morgan (2016) New Girl: A Conversation with Elizabeth Meriwether, Moderated by Beau Willimon (2016) Up Close with Paula Pell (2016) Up Close with Alan Yang (2017) 2. DRAMAS Oz: Up Close with Tom Fontana (2003) The X-Files: A Conversation with Chris Carter, Moderated by Damon Lindelof (2012) A Conversation with David Chase, Moderated by Barry Josephson (2012) Lost: Up Close with Damon Lindelof (2012) Up Close with Marti Noxon (2012) Breaking Bad: A Conversation with Vince Gilligan, Moderated by Barry Josephson (2013) A Conversation with Vince Gilligan, Moderated by Álvaro Rodríguez (2013) Rectify: A Conversation with Ray McKinnon, Moderated by Barbara Morgan (2013) House: Up Close with David Shore (2013) Justified: Up Close with Wendy Calhoun (2014) The 10-Hour Movie: A Conversation with Cary Fukunaga and Noah Hawley (2014) Mad Men: A Conversation with Matthew Weiner, Moderated by Robert Draper (2014) Better Call Saul: A Conversation with Peter Gould, Moderated by Barbara Morgan (2015)

    5 in stock

    £15.19

  • Scenarios III: Stroszek; Nosferatu, Phantom of

    University of Minnesota Press Scenarios III: Stroszek; Nosferatu, Phantom of

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisFor the first time in English, and in his signature prose poetry, the film scripts of four of Werner Herzog’s early works “Herzog doesn’t write traditional scripts,” Film International remarked of the master filmmaker’s Scenarios I and II. “Instead, he writes scenarios which are like a hybrid of film, fiction, and prose poetry.”Continuing a series that Publishers Weekly pronounced “compulsively readable . . . equal parts challenging and satisfying, infuriating and enlightening,” Scenarios III presents, for the first time in English, the shape-shifting scripts for four of Werner Herzog’s early films: Stroszek; Nosferatu, Phantom of the Night; Where the Green Ants Dream; and Cobra Verde. We can observe Herzog’s working vision as each of these scenarios unfolds in a form often dramatically different from the film’s final version—as, in his own words, Herzog works himself up into “this kind of frenzy of high-caliber language and concepts and beauty.”With Scenarios I and II, this volume completes the picture of Herzog’s earliest work, affording a view of the filmmaker mastering his craft, well on his way to becoming one of the most original, and most celebrated, artists in his field.

    1 in stock

    £17.99

  • University of Iowa Press Screenwriting for Neurotics: A Beginner's Guide to Writing a Feature-Length Screenplay from Start to Finish

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisScreenwriting for Neurotics is a quirky and accessible handbook for beginning screenwriters. Whether you are a student in a screenwriting class or just someone who wants to try their hand at writing for fi lm or television, this handy guidebook makes the entire process simple and unintimidating. Scott Winfield Sublett, a veteran screenwriter and screenwriting teacher, walks you step by step from start to finish and helps you navigate potential and unforeseen difficulties along the way, offering handy tips and suggestions to keep you from becoming blocked or stalled.Rather than throwing you into the writing process headfirst, Sublett guides you through the various decisions you need to make— about plot, character, structure, conflict—in the order you need to make them. He explains in straightforward terms the terminology and jargon, the theory and industry standards, and dispels common myths about screenwriting that can discourage or hold back a beginning writer.Balancing theory and practice and offering valuable and insightful examples from recognizable and well-known classic and contemporary films, ranging from Casablanca to A Christmas Story to Clerks, Sublett provides the new writer with the necessary tools to successfully write a feature-length screenplay and offers a roadmap of where to go next. With an emphasis on helping a writer not just to begin, but also to finish a script, Screenwriting for Neurotics is the screenwriting book to help you actually write one.

    1 in stock

    £19.90

  • Screeenwriting – History, Theory and Practice

    Wallflower Press Screeenwriting – History, Theory and Practice

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    £999.99

  • NOON

    ERIS NOON

    Book SynopsisNOON is a collection of six works from Filippou's non-filmic oeuvre. Published for the first time in English is available as a limited edition box set of 1,000 hand-numbered copies.

    £67.20

  • Mysterium Twin Peaks: Zeichen – Welten –

    Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Mysterium Twin Peaks: Zeichen – Welten –

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisDer Sammelband bringt verschiedene Zugänge und Kontexte zu Twin Peaks zusammen und greift dabei auch die besonderen produktions- und rezeptionsästhetischen Spezifika der Serie auf. Das Spektrum der Beiträge umfasst ganz unterschiedliche Themenbereiche: Genremix, Transaktualität, komplexe narrative Strukturen, Traum und Traumhaftigkeit, Geschlechts- und Identitätskonzepte, extremer Fankult, visuelle Ästhetik, akustische Dimensionen, postmoderne Verweiskultur und nicht zuletzt die Frage danach, welche anderen Quality TV-Serien durch Twin Peaks erst möglich wurden.Table of ContentsEinleitung(en).- Zeichen.- Welten.- Referenzen.- Anhang.

    1 in stock

    £42.74

  • Nagarik – The Screenplays, Volume 1

    7 in stock

    £12.34

  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Script Analysis

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    a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

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    £118.75

  • Taylor & Francis Ltd The Final Rewrite

    15 in stock

    a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

    15 in stock

    £118.75

  • Taylor & Francis Ltd The Screenwriter Activist

    15 in stock

    a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

    15 in stock

    £128.25

  • Taylor & Francis Ltd The Screenwriter Activist

    15 in stock

    a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

    15 in stock

    £35.99

  • Taylor & Francis Ltd MediaWriting

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisAccessible and engaging, this book is an invaluable resource for students planning to enter the dynamic and changing world of media writing.Drawing on a wealth of real-world examples and featuring helpful How To boxes throughout, MediaWriting explains the various styles of writing for print, broadcast, online, social media, public relations, and multimedia outlets.Expanded and updated throughout, this sixth edition features: A look at how journalists and PR practitioners use and write for social media platforms such as X and Facebook; Tips for better web writing, research, interviewing, and headline writing across multiple media platforms, including covering breaking news in the digital world; Coverage of public relations writing for digital media, publications, and other organizational media; Updates on current ethical issues faced by communicators; Information on spotting fake news and deep fakes; Strategies f

    15 in stock

    £66.49

  • Beowulf

    HarperCollins Publishers Inc Beowulf

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £21.21

  • The Church of Baseball

    Random House USA Inc The Church of Baseball

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisLA TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award-winning screenwriter and director of cult classic Bull Durham, the extremely entertaining behind-the-scenes story of the making of the film, and an insightful primer on the art and business of moviemaking.This book tells you how to make a movie—the whole nine innings of it—out of nothing but sheer will.” —Tony Gilroy, writer/director of Michael Clayton and The Bourne LegacyThe only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the church of baseball.—Annie in Bull DurhamBull Durham, the breakthrough 1988 film about a minor league baseball team, is widely revered as the best sports movie of all time. But back in 1987, Ron Shelton was a first-time director and no one was willing to finance a movie about baseball—especially a story set in the minors. The jury was still out on Kevin Costner’s leading-man potential, while Susan Sarandon was already a has-been. There were doubts. But something miraculous happened, and The Church of Baseball attempts to capture why.From organizing a baseball camp for the actors and rewriting key scenes while on set, to dealing with a short production schedule and overcoming the challenge of filming the sport, Shelton brings to life the making of this beloved American movie. Shelton explains the rarely revealed ins and outs of moviemaking, from a film’s inception and financing, screenwriting, casting, the nuts and bolts of directing, the postproduction process, and even through its release. But this is also a book about baseball and its singular romance in the world of sports. Shelton spent six years in the minor leagues before making this film, and his experiences resonate throughout this book.Full of wry humor and insight, The Church of Baseball tells the remarkable story behind an iconic film.

    10 in stock

    £15.30

  • Hitchcocks Partner in Suspense

    The University Press of Kentucky Hitchcocks Partner in Suspense

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    £30.40

  • Save the Cat Goes to the Indies

    Save the Cat! Press Save the Cat Goes to the Indies

    3 in stock

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    3 in stock

    £19.50

  • Writing for Animation

    Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Writing for Animation

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisAnimation is one of the fastest growing mediums in the film and television world whether it's Frozen or Paw Patrol, Family Guy or Rick and Morty. This book is the definitive guide to storytelling for writers, directors, storyboard artists and animators. Suitable for both the student and the professional, it provides indispensable knowledge on the entire process of writing for animated movies, TV series and short films. The reader will be provided with all the tools necessary to produce professional quality scripts that will start, or further, their career in animation. Beginning with the fundamentals of why animation?' this book will lead the reader through a series of principles that will raise the level of their storytelling. These principles are tried and tested on a daily basis by the authors who have a twenty-year track record in the animation industry.Many people are trying to break into the world of writing for animation and a lot of the people who aTrade ReviewProvides indispensable knowledge on the entire process of writing for animated movies or TV series. * Writers' Forum *A thought-provoking insight into the nuances of animation script writing. Paul and Laura lay out the tools you’ll need to create a robust three act story with rich, engaging characters in an immersive world. Through case studies and exercises, stories are deconstructed, characters interrogated and the production and feedback processes demystified. * Chris Rose, Vice President for Animation Production and Development at Nickelodeon International *Table of Contents1. Let's Get Going! 2. All about Goals 3. The Three Act Structure 4. Emotion 5. Jeopardy 6. Creating Characters 7. Finding the Funny 8. Dialogue Workshop 9. Understanding your Technology 10. Directing on the Page 11. Specifics of Writing for Children 12. Writing for an Existing Show 13. Writing the Movie 14. Creating a Show that Works 15. Collaboration 16. The Pitch 17. Four Top Tips Bibliography Index

    10 in stock

    £30.07

  • Usborne Publishing Ltd Write Your Own Scripts

    3 in stock

    Book SynopsisDo you dream of becoming a scriptwriter? This book will help you write all kinds of scripts - scary ones, exciting ones and hilariously silly ones. Each page is full of tips and ideas that will help you every step of the way - from making up characters to writing dialogue and putting on your very own show. With Usborne Quicklinks to specially selected websites for more inspiration.A great primer for anyone who wants to write a film, a play, a radio play, a puppet show, a podcast - any kind of script you can dream of.

    3 in stock

    £14.24

  • Klincksieck L'Art Du Scenario

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £29.71

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